Ankur Shah

Ankur Shah is the Co-founder and CEO of Straiker, an AI-native security company focused on protecting agentic AI applications. He previously served as SVP and GM of Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks, where he led the platform's growth from a single module to a leading cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) with 50-fold revenue growth over five years. He is a cybersecurity veteran with prior leadership roles at RedLock, CipherCloud, and Symantec, and was named Security Executive of the Year at the 2026 SC Awards.